The Limp of A Letter
13 February 2015 - 31 May 2015
BOZAR

The Limp of a Letter treats language and speech as structures that can migrate into physical form. Rather than functioning as a vehicle for narrative, linguistic qualities become a point of departure for the construction of objects and spatial situations.

In the installation, characteristics normally associated with speech: such as hesitation, interruption, repetition or fragmentation are translated into visual and sculptural gestures. Patterns of rhythm, delay and dislocation shift from the domain of language into the arrangement of materials forms and structures.

Through this translation, the exhibition loosens the authority of linear language and its association with clarity, logic and coherence. Fragments, pauses, distortions and partial constructions begin to shape the environment allowing linguistic behaviour to reappear as spatial composition.

The result is a setting, where speech, thought and object quietly mirror one another and where the boundaries between language structure and material form remain deliberately unstable.